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"Xiao Ning, are you serious?"

"Well, very seriously, Academician Ning said now is the best time to launch this plan. However, he will not admit that he did this plan. He will even stand in the laboratory when he is forcibly promoting this plan. Scientists have to speak out. Of course, this requires us to be more forceful."

"..."

"By the way, you should take a look at the back. He has prepared this set of ideological training materials, which means that the teachers we have inserted need to study these materials for a period of time. This is a very important part, and we cannot use traditional method to do this ideological work. Well..."

"Academician Yong Ning said that we must use the thinking model of scientists to point out the direction for them, and make these people realize from the bottom of their hearts and unswervingly believe that all their efforts in the laboratory are for the welfare of all mankind. Pay, each of them is the light of the earth, well... I took a look at it, and that’s what it means!”

"What if something goes wrong? Is he siding with the scientists and playing devil's advocate? What if something goes wrong with the work in the laboratory? How much money was poured into it? Their results can directly affect the future development direction of China as a whole. Who is responsible for the economic trend?”

"Well, Academician Ning said there will be no problem. He is prepared. If there are any other responsibilities, he will bear them!"

"Does he take responsibility? Even if he really wants to take responsibility, the board will never hit him! The higher-ups can't even coax him, so what responsibility will he have to take? What should he do if he doesn't just let him make trouble? In the end, others Taking advantage of him? He announced it in March of that year. He was in the limelight. How many people were scolded and punished after that press conference? At that time, during the meeting, the superiors directly said that these people did not care about young scientists and did not respect them. Academic…”

"I still remember that at that time, the leaders were pounding the table and swearing, and the word corpse meal was used! The supervisors were transferred to idle positions twice. What was the result? When I went to talk to Xiao Ning, he looked so pleasant. For March Intelligent How the system handles it is just a suggestion. The pressure is digested internally, and then a bunch of people are busy wiping his butt afterwards..."

"Well, what do you think we should do? Anyway, I reported this matter to you, and now I have my opinion. Anyway, I will listen to you."

"No, don't listen to me. Xiaoliu, why don't you take care of the preliminary training work? I'll leave it to you to take charge of everything after the deployment. Just do it boldly!"

"No, I have absolutely no experience in this area!"

"You can learn if you don't have experience. Don't be afraid. An experienced deputy will be arranged for you when the time comes. Your level should also be raised. Xiao Liu, if you think so, Academician Ning asked you to report this situation , it shows that I value you, and you should shoulder this responsibility. Isn’t it worthy of others’ expectations? Take a step back and say, where is your personal relationship with Academician Ning, who should do this matter, in case of trouble? It will be very troublesome if you come, but you are different. You really have Academician Ning’s support, so what are you afraid of?"

"But……"

"Well, that's it! You should work hard to improve during this period. When we are ready, the process will be almost completed. Then you can take office directly. Okay, go and get busy!"

…

Ning Wei's thirtieth birthday has passed, and the biggest gift for this birthday is probably that the influence of March's various journals is exploding at a speed that can be seen with the naked eye.

At this stage, the influence of academic journals is still judged by impact factors.

But in fact, the composition of these influencing factors is actually very complicated, especially for ordinary people. But there are still many basic concepts that can be used as a reference. For example, the Journal Citation Report (JCR) divides these journals into different partitions through the Science Citation Index. The higher the partition, the greater its influence. For example, the first and second districts that everyone knows...

When the March journal was first published, except for mathematics, which was included in the second area due to Ning Wei's influence, the other branches actually received a mediocre response. With the help of March's various scientific awards, it took several years to bring natural sciences such as physics and chemistry to the second zone about the year before last. At this time, the March Mathematics Journal was also worthy of entering the first zone.

However, as Ning's theory has been proven in the past two years, relevant papers are basically submitted directly to March, which also makes the influence of these journals continue to rise. When researching a new direction requires citing literature from a certain journal, its influence will naturally increase.

After the latest influence index was announced, four journals under the March Journal, namely March Mathematics Journal, March Physics Journal, March Science Daily and March Materials New Development, have become the first in the world. Even the March Mathematics Journal and the March Physics Journal are already recognized as the world's top journals. The March Mathematics Journal even surpassed New Developments in Mathematics and became recognized as one of the top five mathematics journals in the world.

In recent journal citation reports, the influence of the March Physics Journal has been almost equal to that of world-class journals such as Letters on Theoretical Physics. There has even begun to be a tendency to speed up and surpass. Because now almost all the eyes of the world are focused on the March Physics Journal.

On the day when the journal is updated, physicists from all over the world will log on to the official website of the international version of the March journal to check the latest research results on the shelves.

This is obviously very exciting news for scientists working at the China Basic Physics Laboratory.

At least for now, in the past two years when the influence of physics journals surged in March, 80% of the papers were issued by physics laboratories. In other words, the great increase in the influence of journals is actually the recognition of their research results by the entire academic community around the world. This level of attention even exceeds the academic community’s attention to CERN.

From this point of view, Ningwei’s initial ideas have been realized. The scientists who came to the China Basic Physics Laboratory have already begun to realize that they are beginning to involute. If there weren't too many messy things and everyone was working seriously to educate the students, I would probably rather wake up laughing in the dream.

It’s just that now it seems that the involution is accompanied by the emergence of various small groups’ interest alliances. Ningwei did not expect that this big corporate disease of group heating would appear in its research institutions. After in-depth review, Ning Wei discovered that this actually had his own reasons.

Still trying to do whatever it takes to attract people.

Better treatment, better pursuits, higher status in the future...

Using this method to attract people will inevitably make many people hope to gain both fame and fortune as soon as possible. He is not short of money, and he has enough reputation, but from the perspective of other scientists, these people are still full of desire for fame and fortune. Under such circumstances, it seems understandable to cause some trouble.

This situation should have happened at CERN before, but it was not so severe. It is most likely because it is not that simple to achieve results at CERN. Many scientists doing basic research did not see hope.

But after coming to the Huaxia Basic Laboratory, there were too many hopes, and people's hearts naturally became more unstable.

In order to remedy the situation, Ning Wei finally made this decision that may go against the wishes of many people, and indeed made countless people uproar...

"In the future, if the laboratory wants to retain or apply for and obtain the internal professorship, it will need to study scientific ethics three times a week and take the exam. Only with excellent test scores can one have the internal professorship in the laboratory? Ronny, what is this? mean?"

"I don't know. I only received the email today. But I heard that this was a decision made by a competent authority in the laboratory. Yesterday, Ning argued with the officials sent by the competent authority, but the other side was very insistent."

"It's just a joke. I have to squeeze out the time for experiments, and there are also teaching tasks, and now we have to go to class? What does this scientific moral cultivation mean? Is this implying anything?"

"It is said that it is related to the increase in the number of papers that have been withdrawn in the March journal. As for the others, I don't know. But since the notice has been sent, it is better to go and listen to it first. If you can't get the professorship, it will be very troublesome. "Professor Ronny shrugged.

It is indeed very troublesome. According to the internal management regulations of the laboratory, it is impossible to get a project internally without an internally recognized professorship. In other words, he is not qualified to be the project leader or main deputy at all. For scientists within the laboratory, this is indeed fatal.

According to the rules of the laboratory, the main honors for the achievements of different project teams naturally belong to the project leader and main deputy. For example, when a paper is published, the corresponding author must belong to the project leader. In some projects, even the correspondence and first author belong to the project leader, and the second author naturally belongs to the main assistant. Finally, whether other members of the project team can sign the paper is determined by the project leader. The person in charge will make a comprehensive judgment based on their respective contributions.

In other words, if you can't get a project within the laboratory, then the honors you get will actually have nothing to do with you. Therefore, the internal professorship title is particularly important. For many scientists who joined the laboratory in the early days, the laboratory was understaffed at that time. Basically, after coming here and passing a comprehensive assessment, they all started to take charge of their respective projects directly. But now that there are more people in the laboratory, there are naturally more people. compete.

If he is really removed from his status as an internal professor because of this so-called scientific ethics, it also means that the project leader will be replaced. This is a very embarrassing thing. There may be less pressure on professors responsible for some unpopular projects. After all, there are only a few people in the entire project team, and most of them cannot afford the project. But for the leaders of some key projects, the pressure is naturally great, and even the people below cannot So relieved.

If you are taken down because of such a messy thing, and the people below are asked to come up, who can you talk to to reason?

The voice of opposition is naturally very loud, and the discussion in private has become very peaceful. In fact, many people have already begun to protest. It even reached Ning Wei's office in the laboratory.

"Ning, I don't understand. What is this? Scientific ethics, who are you questioning? I think you should be tougher. This is delaying progress!" The first batch came to the basic physics experiment Bernard, the scientist in the room, sat across from Ning Wei very seriously and made appeals on behalf of many other scientists.

This seems a bit funny to everyone.

There is a reason why everyone recommended Bernard to negotiate with Ning Wei. He is the corresponding author of the paper "Controllable macroscopic information flux tunneling in Bose Einstein condensates", the biggest achievement since the establishment of the Basic Physics Laboratory.

Bernard, Ronny and a professor from the School of High Energy Physics of Yanbei University jointly made the achievement of quantum high-speed light tunneling and carrying information, among which he made the greatest contribution.

In fact, Bernard wanted to drag Ronnie along to talk to Ning Wei, but Ronnie refused for some trivial reasons, so he finally sat alone in Ning Wei's office.

"Professor Richard, actually you should know that this is really not something I can decide. Yes, the basic laboratory was established at my suggestion, including the research center next to it, but I did not pay for it. ! I was stunned when I received this notice yesterday. The people who made this decision really don’t know how hard it is to stay in the laboratory!" Ning Wei sighed while shaking his head.

This sentence obviously touched Bernard's heart, and he immediately said: "Yeah, isn't this nonsense? Let's waste time on such boring things. With all this time, how many projects can we advance? "

"That's it, but what I said doesn't count! To put it bluntly, it's my fault that the journal in March recently found too many problems, and more than ten papers were published at once. It turns out that the person who paid for it I couldn't sit still and began to wonder if there was something wrong in the laboratory. I went to the meeting that day and I explained it to everyone. Scientific research can't be completely error-free, right?" Ning Wei said listlessly. .

These words made Bernard blush somewhat, and he was speechless for a moment. But before the scientist opposite could think of how to respond, Ning Wei spoke again: "But it's useless. The main investment unit above is still very angry. After all, they spent money, and they are tougher than me when they speak. You are I don’t know how angry I was at that time! If I really had trillions, I would take it out and smash it in that guy’s face! Just tell me whether you’re angry or not!”

As for how much money Ning Wei has in his personal account, he has no interest in showing off to everyone. Naturally, Bernard didn't know that the leading figure in scientific research in the opposite laboratory really had the ability to spend money on the opposite party, so he was somewhat relieved. As long as Ningwei was on their side, there should be a way to make this boring course flow. in form.

But before he could echo a few words, Ning Wei spoke again: "But there is no way, the management rights have been taken away, so the laboratory will set up a scientific accomplishment evaluation group. In addition to three classes a week, each The project team will also assign a special observer to care about everyone's mental state at all times. But I have also figured it out. You can talk to everyone and treat them as priests..."

After the words fell, Ning Wei seemed to remember something and said: "By the way, there is another good news to share with you. There is another breakthrough in our laboratory. Lao Luo, do you know? The project team led by Luo Zhiqiang and Yan The New Materials Laboratory of Peking University has completed the cross-space transmission test of a new type of composite material and is currently preparing..."

"What……"

"Aren't you happy, Bernard?"